Patrick Ness Quotes

Whatever you do, do it well.

If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

You've got to perfect your craft.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

I just think if you're going to do something, do it properly.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

When you do any job well, it looks very natural.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

I work really hard on my craft.

I take my craft seriously.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.